glass negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - GLASS NEGATIVES
USA: Massachusetts: New Bedford ?
Before 1902
6.50 x 8.50 x 0

Glass negative; starboard view, taken from wharf, of hermaphrodite brig, identified on oniginal envelope as FRANCES A. BARSTOW [built 1877, sold foreign 1901], drying sails, unidentified Black [?] man at her wheel; whale oil barrels in foreground; from the collection of Charles F. Sayle, Sr; negative is damaged from flaking emulsion, scratched in lower right corner "140"

1994.53.143